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Speaker 1: Today's story is a spooky mystery out of China. Now,
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Speaker 1: it's a little bit complicated. However, if you stick it
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Speaker 1: out till the end and you hear about what authorities
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Speaker 1: get into today's story. At five am on September thirtieth
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Speaker 1: two and a sixty one year old man named Sen
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Speaker 1: t y Hung finished getting dressed inside of the bedroom
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Speaker 1: that he shared with his wife in the city of Beijing, China.
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Speaker 1: After he finished getting dressed, Schen reached down and scooped
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Speaker 1: up his backpack off the floor that was already packed
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Speaker 1: and then as quietly as he could, he kind of
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Speaker 1: tiptoed around the bed to his wife side to give
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Speaker 1: her a kiss goodbye. Sheen was going to be heading
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Speaker 1: out to a local mountain that day for a day hike,
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Speaker 1: and so Sen he gets next to his wife and
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Speaker 1: he bends down to kiss her, and right as he
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Speaker 1: does that, he accidentally wakes her up. And so his
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Speaker 1: wife opens her eyes and she looks up at him,
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Speaker 1: and Sheen just says, you know, I love you. He
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Speaker 1: gives her a kiss, and he tells her, hey, I'll
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Speaker 1: be back tonight before midnight. And so his wife, she
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Speaker 1: kind of groggily said okay, and she grabbed his hand
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Speaker 1: and squeezed it and she told him that she loved him,
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Speaker 1: and then she fell back asleep. And moments later, Shan
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Speaker 1: had left a bedroom and walked out the front door.
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Speaker 1: Sheen's home was only a couple of blocks away from
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Speaker 1: the train station, and since he needed to ride a
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Speaker 1: train and then also a bus to get to this
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Speaker 1: local mountain that was about an hour and a half
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Speaker 1: journey away, the train station was his first stop up
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Speaker 1: and so En, as he walked towards the station, he
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Speaker 1: was all smiles. I mean, he was really excited about
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Speaker 1: this day. So Xen was retired, but he had spent
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Speaker 1: his whole life teaching geography at Beijing Number five Middle School,
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Speaker 1: and he was a very passionate teacher. But the thing
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Speaker 1: he was most passionate about that he routinely really pushed
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Speaker 1: on his students in some ways more than geography was
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Speaker 1: his love of nature. In fact, Chen loved nature so
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Speaker 1: much that when he was not teaching, he'd basically spent
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Speaker 1: all of his off time out in nature going for hikes.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that was his thing. And today Xienne was
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Speaker 1: especially excited about his hike because he was hiking one
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Speaker 1: of his favorite trails. It was located on Mount Mielfung,
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Speaker 1: which is a mountain located thirty miles to the northwest
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Speaker 1: of where Chen lived. And this mountain was quite famous
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Speaker 1: because of all the sacred and ancient temples that kind
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Speaker 1: of dotted the mountain all over the place. And then
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Speaker 1: also there were all these beautiful roses like the flower
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Speaker 1: that would bloom all over the mountain in the summer,
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Speaker 1: and so it's just this totally strikingly beautiful place. And
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Speaker 1: normally Jienne would actually hike up this trail and then
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Speaker 1: actually camp out on Mount Mio Fung, mostly because on
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Speaker 1: the summit there was this incredible view of downtown Beijing
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Speaker 1: and at night the view is like spectacular with the
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Speaker 1: city all lit up. But on this particular day, jenne
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Speaker 1: knew an overnight's day was not possible because he had
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Speaker 1: to be back home by the next day because it
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Speaker 1: was his mother's ninetieth birthday and he was very close
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Speaker 1: with his mother and he was not going to miss that.
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Speaker 1: And so Jen eventually made it to the train station.
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Speaker 1: He bought his ticket, he boarded his train, and then
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Speaker 1: he sat down in a seat, and as soon as
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Speaker 1: he did, he opened up his bag and pulled out
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Speaker 1: a stack of papers. For this hike, Jen had packed
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Speaker 1: himself some food and water inside of his backpack. He
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Speaker 1: also packed a newspaper called the Beijing Youth Daily, and
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Speaker 1: he brought along his diary. But his diary was a
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Speaker 1: little bit unique Jen because he loved nature so much
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Speaker 1: and didn't like the idea of wasting anything. What he
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Speaker 1: would do when he was a teacher at Beijing Number
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Speaker 1: five Middle School, he would just take scrap paper and
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Speaker 1: start writing on that, and he would compile all his
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Speaker 1: scrap paper into these sort of diaries that he would keep.
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Speaker 1: And so the reason he did that was primarily because
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Speaker 1: he was so in love with nature. He hated the
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Speaker 1: idea of wasting anything. And so Jen passed the time
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Speaker 1: on the train by writing in his diary aka his
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Speaker 1: stack of scrap paper, and also reading this newspaper. And
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Speaker 1: Jen knew he really needed to read the entire newspaper
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Speaker 1: pretty quickly because by the time he got to the
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Speaker 1: mountain he was going to do what he always did,
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Speaker 1: which is he would bring a newspaper with him on
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Speaker 1: a hike, and as he walked, he would take out
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Speaker 1: a page periodically and tie it to a tree, kind
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Speaker 1: of marking his way. That way, when he turned around
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Speaker 1: and came back down, he would have his path marked
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Speaker 1: because Jen did not always walk on a clearly marked trail,
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Speaker 1: and so this was his way of not getting lost.
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Speaker 1: And so Jen would ride the train car and then
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Speaker 1: he would get off and he would board a bus,
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Speaker 1: and then finally, right around seven am, that bus would
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Speaker 1: come to It was stop in the tiny village of
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Speaker 1: chen Feng, which is located right at the base of
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Speaker 1: Mount miel Fung, and so Jien grabbed his backpack, he
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Speaker 1: hopped off the bus and then began walking through the
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Speaker 1: village towards the mountain. And then by about seven twenty am,
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Speaker 1: so not long after Jienne had left the bus, he
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Speaker 1: was almost up to Mount miel Fung when he pulled
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Speaker 1: out his cell phone and he called his cousin. It
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Speaker 1: was a brief conversation and all Jienne really wanted to
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Speaker 1: do was just to make sure his cousin was going
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Speaker 1: to be around the next day for Jienne's mother's birthday,
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Speaker 1: and the cousin said he would, and so Jenne told him, Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm going hiking today and I will see you tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: and then he hung up, and then only a couple
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Speaker 1: minutes later, Chienne disappeared into the beautiful forests of Mount
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Speaker 1: I was getting a whole bunch of solicitation phone calls
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Speaker 1: Now Honestly, this was more of a nuisance than a
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Speaker 1: was genuinely shocked by how much of my personal information
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Speaker 1: expect to hear from Jeenne at any point that day
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Speaker 1: because she knew he would have terrible cell phone service
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Speaker 1: up on the mountain, but she did expect her husband
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Speaker 1: to be home on time. He had told her that
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Speaker 1: morning before he left that he would be home that
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Speaker 1: night before midnight. And if you knew Jenne, you knew
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Speaker 1: this guy was never late. He said, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: be someplace at a certain time, he would be there.
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Speaker 1: So when ten pm rolled around that night and still
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Speaker 1: Jenne was not back yet and he had not called,
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Speaker 1: Jenne's wife was actually not worried because she was thinking, Okay,
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Speaker 1: well it's ten he'll be home in the next couple
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Speaker 1: of hours because he said he'd be here by midnight tonight,
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Speaker 1: and he will be here tonight, And so she went
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Speaker 1: to bed expecting to wake up and see Jeenne in
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Speaker 1: bed with her in the morning. But the next morning
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Speaker 1: when she woke up, Jenne was not in bed, so
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Speaker 1: he did not come home, and so his wife immediately
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Speaker 1: was very concerned and began calling Jenn's family, and nobody
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Speaker 1: knew where he was. And so that day the family
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Speaker 1: went to the police and they reported Gen missing. The
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Speaker 1: local police immediately organized a search for Jenne. However, they
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Speaker 1: knew this was going to be a very challenging search.
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Speaker 1: Mount Miofung is not some enormous mountain by any means.
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Speaker 1: It's a decent sized mountain, but you know, it's really
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Speaker 1: known for having these paths that twist and turn all
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Speaker 1: over the place, so it's pretty easy to get lost.
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Speaker 1: And then also there's a whole bunch of sheer cliff
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Speaker 1: faces kind of all over the place, so if you're
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Speaker 1: not paying attention, you could literally just walk off a ledge.
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Speaker 1: So in short, this is a dangerous and confusing place.
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Speaker 1: And at the same time that the search was happening
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Speaker 1: out on the mountain, the police were also in contact
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Speaker 1: with Gen's cell phone service provider to see if they
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Speaker 1: could track down Gen's cell phone, because obviously, if they
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Speaker 1: could find that, they might find Gen too. But the
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Speaker 1: only way a cell phone can be tracked is if
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Speaker 1: the cell phone is on, because when it's on, it
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Speaker 1: connects to the nearest cell phone tower, and that's how
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Speaker 1: these service providers are able to tell where these phones are.
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Speaker 1: They looked to see which tower it's connected to. But
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Speaker 1: when Gen's cell phone service provider looked for his phone,
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Speaker 1: they quickly determined his phone was off, so unless the
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Speaker 1: phone came back on again, they would not be able
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Speaker 1: to locate the phone. However, they were able to pull
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Speaker 1: all of Genn's cell phone signal history up until his
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Speaker 1: phone was turned off, and what they found in this
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Speaker 1: signal history is the day before so the day Jen
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Speaker 1: went missing, his cell phone was on at four pm
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Speaker 1: that evening, and he received a phone call at four pm,
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Speaker 1: and the service provider was able to see that when
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Speaker 1: this phone call came in, Jenn's cell phone was not
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Speaker 1: where they thought it would be. It was not high
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Speaker 1: up mountmea phone. It actually was near the base of
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Speaker 1: the mountain. And when police reached out to the person
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Speaker 1: who had called Gen at four pm, they discovered it
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Speaker 1: was just a friend of Gienne's and this friend said
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Speaker 1: that Chen said he was coming down the mountain now
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Speaker 1: and he'd be home soon. So this new information did
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Speaker 1: basically line up with what Sheen had told her family
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Speaker 1: he'd be doing that day, you know, just a quick
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Speaker 1: day hike, although again they kind of expected it to
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Speaker 1: be a little bit longer. It seemed a little odd
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Speaker 1: he'd be down the mountain by four pm. But still
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Speaker 1: this basically lined up with what they thought he was doing. However,
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Speaker 1: this new information did not help explain what happened to Jenne,
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Speaker 1: like why was he missing. The expectation was he must
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Speaker 1: have gotten lost or heard or something up on this mountain.
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Speaker 1: You know, maybe he's stranded somewhere and can't go anywhere.
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Speaker 1: But now, based on this phone call, it sounded an
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Speaker 1: awful lot like Jenne was not even on the mountain
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Speaker 1: when he disappeared, so where was he? Police had already
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Speaker 1: checked all the bus stations and train stations in the area,
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Speaker 1: you know, to see if maybe Jenne took a different
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Speaker 1: way home or something. But when they went to all
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Speaker 1: these different stations, there was no evidence that Jenne had
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Speaker 1: been to any of them. And there was another problem.
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Speaker 1: Members of Jenne's family told the police about Jenne's habit
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Speaker 1: of tying newspapers to trees to mark his trail as
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Speaker 1: he hiked, and the family told the police that Jenne
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Speaker 1: did this every single time he hiked, and his wife
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Speaker 1: told the police that for sure she knew her husband
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Speaker 1: had brought along a copy of that newspaper. So by
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Speaker 1: all expectations, there should be markers up on that mountain,
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Speaker 1: literally leading searchers to wherever Jien went. But after an
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Speaker 1: entire day of searching Mount Miofung, they didn't find a
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Speaker 1: single newspaper anywhere. For the next several days, this big
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Speaker 1: search for Jen continued, but nothing was found. That is
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Speaker 1: until October seventh, so one week after Jen had vanished.
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Speaker 1: On that day, Jien's cell phone service provider noticed that
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Speaker 1: Jen's cell phone had suddenly turned back on, and the
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Speaker 1: phone was not on or near Mount Milfung. Instead, it
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Speaker 1: was located thirty six miles away from the mountain at
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Speaker 1: a train station called Beijing West Railway Station. Now, the
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Speaker 1: cell phone was only on for a couple of seconds,
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Speaker 1: but it was on long enough for the provider to
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Speaker 1: confirm that it really was in that location, and so
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Speaker 1: the police immediately dispatched a team to go to Beijing
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Speaker 1: West Railway Station and see if they could find Jienne.
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Speaker 1: But when they got there, Jien was not there. His
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Speaker 1: phone was not there. You know, they looked at all
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Speaker 1: the security footage, there was no sign of Chienne. They
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Speaker 1: searched the surrounding areas. Nothing. And on this day, at
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Speaker 1: basically the same time that police are at this railway
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Speaker 1: station trying to make sense of, you know, what's going
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Speaker 1: on with the cell phone, a villager from chen Fang village,
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Speaker 1: which is that little village that sits at the base
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Speaker 1: of Mount Miao Fung, came forward with a very strange story.
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Speaker 1: He said, on the day that Chien disappeared, this villager
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Speaker 1: was at his little shop he sold walnuts to hikers
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Speaker 1: that were making their way towards Mount Mieofung. It was
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Speaker 1: basically like snacks for the hike. And he sees this
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Speaker 1: guy walking up through the village towards the mountain, and
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Speaker 1: he looked exactly like Jenn. Because now Jen's face was
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Speaker 1: on the news and this villager had seen it, and
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Speaker 1: so he felt like he had seen Jienn. And so
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Speaker 1: this villager said, you know, this guy who looked exactly
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Speaker 1: like Jienne. He walked up and actually stopped at this
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Speaker 1: villagers shop to buy some walnuts. And this villager and
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Speaker 1: this man who looked like Chienne, they just chatted for
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Speaker 1: a few minutes, and at some point this guy, this
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Speaker 1: guy who looked like Chienne, asked the villager, you know, hey,
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Speaker 1: these are great, but where else can I buy walnuts?
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Speaker 1: I want to buy other types of walnuts and bring
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Speaker 1: them back to my family. And so this villager was like, oh, yeah, well,
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Speaker 1: the best walnuts in all of Beijing are actually located
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Speaker 1: about thirty miles away at the base of another mountain.
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Speaker 1: It's called Tiatoa Mountain, and there are vendors over there
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Speaker 1: who sell the best walnuts. So that's your answer right
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Speaker 1: over there. And then after the villager said this, this
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Speaker 1: guy who looked just like Jienne, It's like everything changed
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Speaker 1: for him. It's like his expression changed, his tone changed.
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Speaker 1: It's like he's been given this information that's changed his life.
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Speaker 1: You know, about these walnuts, and he says to the villager, Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to go there right now, and without saying
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Speaker 1: anything else, this man just turned and began quickly walking
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Speaker 1: away from the walnuts, back through town, back towards the
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Speaker 1: bus stop, so away from Mount Miofung. In theory, this
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Speaker 1: guy is going to the bus to what commute thirty
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Speaker 1: miles to this other mountain, Tiatoa Mountain to get these walnuts.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the villager does not know this guy, but
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Speaker 1: even he felt like this is bizarre. This guy comes up,
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Speaker 1: he's buying snacks to go hike Mount Mialfung. He seems
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Speaker 1: really excited about it, and I offhandedly mention these walnuts
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Speaker 1: and he's like, boom, I'm out of here. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: go thirty miles to this other mountain to get these walnuts.
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Speaker 1: It just seemed weird. And then when police spoke to
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Speaker 1: Hien's family about this new information, they would learn that
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Speaker 1: Xien did not have a special interest in walnuts, and
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Speaker 1: neither did his family. And even if there was a
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Speaker 1: reason why Jien just really wanted these walnuts, he would
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Speaker 1: not have had time in that day to take the
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Speaker 1: bus thirty miles to Tiatoa Mountain, get these walnuts, go
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Speaker 1: thirty miles back, and hike up Mount Mialfung because he
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Speaker 1: can't stay. He needs to come back tonight in order
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Speaker 1: to go to his mother's birthday party the next day.
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Speaker 1: So it just made no sense. But this walnut thing
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Speaker 1: was basically the only lead police really had because everything
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Speaker 1: else was a dead end, and so they decided to
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Speaker 1: shift their search area from Mount Mialfung to Tiatoa Mountain,
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Speaker 1: and pretty much right away they saw something that gave
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Speaker 1: them hope that Jienne could be here. They found pages
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Speaker 1: from the Beijing Youth Daily newspaper tied to trees on
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Speaker 1: the mountain, and when they looked more closely at the newspapers,
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Speaker 1: they found the publication date of this newspaper lined up
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Speaker 1: with the copy that Jienne would have had with him
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Speaker 1: on the day he vanished. And so, of course the
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Speaker 1: searchers just began following this trail of newspapers, hoping Jienne
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Speaker 1: would be at the other end. For two days, searchers
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Speaker 1: very diligently followed this trail up the mountain. It kind
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Speaker 1: of wound around, and they went pretty slowly because as
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Speaker 1: they're moving, you know, they're constantly checking everything around. They
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Speaker 1: don't want to miss any clues. But finally, after two
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Speaker 1: days of following this trail, they eventually found something. The
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Speaker 1: newspapers led them to a campsite. Now, the campsite was abandoned,
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Speaker 1: but there was a bed of hay, there was some
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Speaker 1: used water bottles, and some toilet paper, and so just
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Speaker 1: from the looks of it, this campsite looked relatively active,
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Speaker 1: like somebody had been staying here recently for at least
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Speaker 1: a day or two, and so it seemed pretty likely
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Speaker 1: based on everything else, that this was Jenn's campsite. And
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Speaker 1: pretty quickly after searching the campsite, they found something that
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Speaker 1: virtually guaranteed that this was his campsite. Authorities found this
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Speaker 1: plastic bag that was sitting next to the bed, and
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Speaker 1: inside of the bag was a piece of scrap paper
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Speaker 1: from Beijing Number five Middle School, and on this scrap
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Speaker 1: paper was a note, and the note said Jenne had
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Speaker 1: indeed hiked up Tiatoa Mountain on September thirtieth, This would
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Speaker 1: have been the day that he left, so the day
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Speaker 1: he disappeared. And then on his way down he said
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Speaker 1: he got lost and was forced to spend the night
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Speaker 1: out here, and so that explained the campsite. And then
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Speaker 1: on October first, so that would have been the day
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Speaker 1: after he spent the night out here, he said he
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Speaker 1: was going to attempt to follow the ridge line down
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Speaker 1: the mountain to a nearby village to safety. And this
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Speaker 1: note ended with the phrase leaving this note here just
18:12
Speaker 1: in case, love to everyone who passes by. Now. At
18:16
Speaker 1: first glance, this note was like amazing news because suddenly
18:19
Speaker 1: it seemed totally possible that Jen was just fine. I mean,
18:23
Speaker 1: the way the note was written, it sounded like he
18:25
Speaker 1: was at least healthy and safe. Albeit I'm sure he
18:28
Speaker 1: was not happy to be stuck up on a mountain,
18:30
Speaker 1: but you know, he loved being in nature, and so
18:33
Speaker 1: he seemed okay. And then he had a reasonable plan
18:35
Speaker 1: for how he was going to get out of there,
18:37
Speaker 1: you know, follow the ridge line, go down to a village,
18:39
Speaker 1: go to safety. But as the police analyzed this note,
18:43
Speaker 1: they noticed that some things were off about it. First
18:46
Speaker 1: of all, this note basically directly contradicts other facts of
18:51
Speaker 1: this case. Remember, cell phone records prove Jenne got a
18:55
Speaker 1: phone call at four pm on the day he went
18:57
Speaker 1: missing from his friend, and his friend would that Jen
19:01
Speaker 1: told him that he was coming down Mount Meo Fung
19:03
Speaker 1: and he'd be home soon. But according to the note
19:06
Speaker 1: they found, that was not possible, because the note said
19:10
Speaker 1: Jenne at four pm on September thirtieth, the day he
19:13
Speaker 1: went missing, he would have been on Tiatoa Mountain, either
19:16
Speaker 1: hiking up or being in the process of getting lost,
19:19
Speaker 1: and you know, ultimately making that campsite where he camped
19:22
Speaker 1: out for at least one night. And so, in addition
19:24
Speaker 1: to this factual discrepancy with this note, another issue with
19:28
Speaker 1: the note was just the way it was written. Now,
19:30
Speaker 1: Jienne's wife had a chance to look at the note
19:33
Speaker 1: and she would say, that is my husband's handwriting. But
19:36
Speaker 1: the note contained a bunch of very strange language choices
19:40
Speaker 1: that just didn't make sense for Jenne to be using.
19:43
Speaker 1: For example, this note, which really should have been a
19:45
Speaker 1: first person point of view. You know, Jen has gotten lost,
19:49
Speaker 1: he's by himself, he's writing to the world kind of
19:51
Speaker 1: letting somebody know what's going on with him, and so
19:54
Speaker 1: it really should have been written in the first person.
19:57
Speaker 1: My name is Jenne, I am lost. Here's what I'm doing.
20:00
Speaker 1: But the note was written in the third person. Jenn
20:03
Speaker 1: got lost on the mountain, and so he is going
20:05
Speaker 1: to camp out for the night and tomorrow he's going
20:08
Speaker 1: to make his way out to safety. But despite being
20:10
Speaker 1: written in the third person, it did sound like somebody
20:14
Speaker 1: was talking about themselves. It did not feel like somebody
20:17
Speaker 1: else was attempting to document what Jenn was doing. But
20:21
Speaker 1: by far the weirdest part of this note was the
20:24
Speaker 1: tone shift that happened about halfway through. So the first
20:27
Speaker 1: half of this letter was written, albeit in the third person,
20:31
Speaker 1: but it was grammatically correct and sort of formal, like
20:33
Speaker 1: you would expect from a very well educated retired teacher.
20:36
Speaker 1: But once you get to that second half of the note,
20:39
Speaker 1: the grammar started being really awkward. And then the very
20:42
Speaker 1: final line, which says love to everyone who passes by,
20:47
Speaker 1: that actually sounds totally awkward in Chinese. So love to
20:52
Speaker 1: everyone who passes by is the translation into English, and
20:55
Speaker 1: that basically makes sense to us, like, that's not an
20:57
Speaker 1: awkward phrase. But if you put it back in Chinese,
21:01
Speaker 1: it's so awkward. It would be like if I tried
21:04
Speaker 1: to say to you, I take the bus to work,
21:06
Speaker 1: but instead I said to work, take bus right like
21:10
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it that way, and it would immediately
21:12
Speaker 1: seem very awkward for anybody who knows me if I
21:15
Speaker 1: wrote or said something like that. And so this last
21:18
Speaker 1: line stood out so much that actually police and friends
21:22
Speaker 1: and family of Xienne assumed he must have left that
21:25
Speaker 1: in there as like a secret message or a code,
21:28
Speaker 1: like a distress signal, especially when you consider the other
21:31
Speaker 1: weird factors around this note, but nobody could figure out
21:35
Speaker 1: what it meant. The day after this note was discovered,
21:38
Speaker 1: a searcher was up in the vicinity of Jienn's campsite
21:41
Speaker 1: on Tiatoa Mountain and they were walking around kind of
21:44
Speaker 1: retracing their footsteps, looking for new places to search. When
21:47
Speaker 1: they turned a corner and up ahead, they noticed there
21:50
Speaker 1: was this tree kind of hanging out over this rocky cliff,
21:53
Speaker 1: and dangling from the tree was something gray that looks
21:56
Speaker 1: sort of out of place, and so the searcher, you know,
21:58
Speaker 1: sensing this could be a clue of Sheen's whereabouts. He
22:02
Speaker 1: yelled out for other searchers in the area that he
22:04
Speaker 1: had found something, and then he took off running towards
22:07
Speaker 1: this thing to see what it was. And when he
22:08
Speaker 1: got up to the tree, he looked up and he
22:11
Speaker 1: saw it was a pair of sweatpants that had clearly
22:13
Speaker 1: been intentionally tied to this branch in the tree. And
22:17
Speaker 1: so the searcher he reached up and grabbed one of
22:19
Speaker 1: the pant legs and kind of tugged on it, and
22:22
Speaker 1: when he did, all these white things began falling out
22:25
Speaker 1: of the pants and landing on the ground. And when
22:28
Speaker 1: the searcher stopped and looked down to see what they were,
22:30
Speaker 1: he couldn't believe it. It was a whole pile of human bones. However,
22:35
Speaker 1: they were not gien's. In fact, nobody ever figured out
22:39
Speaker 1: who these bones belonged to or why they were stuffed
22:42
Speaker 1: inside of pants and tied to a tree on this mountain.
22:45
Speaker 1: But the discovery of these bones would open up a
22:48
Speaker 1: whole new mystery, because after these bones were found, all
22:52
Speaker 1: the searchers came over and basically just began combing the
22:56
Speaker 1: area near these bones, and the police began uncovering body
23:01
Speaker 1: after body after body, they found two more sets of
23:04
Speaker 1: human bones stuffed into pants and tied to trees. And
23:08
Speaker 1: they found the other bodies at the foot of a cliff,
23:10
Speaker 1: and also inside of this well and inside of this cave,
23:13
Speaker 1: and so in total, authorities found ten sets of human
23:17
Speaker 1: remains in the vicinity near Jenn's campsite, but none of
23:22
Speaker 1: the human remains belonged to Jenne. Officials were only able
23:25
Speaker 1: to identify a few of the bodies, and they were
23:28
Speaker 1: not able to figure out how they died or whether
23:31
Speaker 1: or not foul play was involved. But the discovery of
23:34
Speaker 1: those bodies did mean one thing for Jenne's case. It meant,
23:38
Speaker 1: you know, all these people had previously gone up Tiatoa
23:41
Speaker 1: Mountain before Jien went up and vanished, and when these
23:45
Speaker 1: other people went up the mountain, clearly something horrible happened
23:49
Speaker 1: to them, and we don't know what it is. Is
23:51
Speaker 1: there a killer on the loose, Is there some animal
23:54
Speaker 1: or creature out there that's taken people out? I mean,
23:57
Speaker 1: we don't know. But what started to happen since Shann
24:00
Speaker 1: went missing and his story was all over the news
24:02
Speaker 1: in China, is that all these other hikers who've been
24:06
Speaker 1: on Tiatoa Mountain before have begun sharing their experiences when
24:10
Speaker 1: they hiked up Tiatoa Mountain, and some of their stories
24:14
Speaker 1: about what they've seen on that mountain are horrifying. One
24:17
Speaker 1: person said they were walking up the mountain. They had
24:19
Speaker 1: their partner with them, who was a little bit farther
24:21
Speaker 1: back the trail, and so they're kind of walking up
24:23
Speaker 1: on their own, and the first person, as they're walking
24:26
Speaker 1: up the trail suddenly sees this guy just kind of
24:29
Speaker 1: come out of nowhere wielding an axe, and he walks
24:32
Speaker 1: up to this person and all he says is are
24:34
Speaker 1: you alone? And the hiker's like, no, my partner's back there.
24:38
Speaker 1: They're coming up here, what's going on? But the axe
24:40
Speaker 1: man he basically acted like he didn't even hear their answer,
24:43
Speaker 1: and he just asked it again, are you alone? And
24:45
Speaker 1: the hiker was like, no, my partner's back there, and
24:49
Speaker 1: the axe man again just said are you alone? Are
24:52
Speaker 1: you alone? Are you alone? And this ax person kept
24:56
Speaker 1: doing that until the hiker and their partner just turned
25:00
Speaker 1: and ran. And then another hiker shared a story about
25:03
Speaker 1: how they were walking up a trail on Tiatoah Mountain
25:05
Speaker 1: and at some point they lifted their head up and
25:08
Speaker 1: he saw a little ways up the trail, kind of
25:10
Speaker 1: off the trail, so in the tree line where all
25:12
Speaker 1: these people, like this group of strangers just standing there, motionless,
25:16
Speaker 1: kind of half behind trees, like they were kind of
25:19
Speaker 1: trying to hide themselves but also not and they were
25:22
Speaker 1: just staring at this hiker, unmoving, not speaking, just staring.
25:26
Speaker 1: And so the hiker, you know, they look up and
25:27
Speaker 1: they see this, and they were so unnerved so quickly
25:31
Speaker 1: that they just turned and left. And they have no
25:33
Speaker 1: idea who those people were. And so obviously we have
25:36
Speaker 1: no way of verifying these other hikers stories about what
25:39
Speaker 1: they saw on Tiatoah Mountain. But when you combine their
25:43
Speaker 1: testimony with Gen's story, it really makes you wonder what's
25:47
Speaker 1: going on up there. The official search for Enne was
25:50
Speaker 1: called off at the end of October, so roughly one
25:53
Speaker 1: month after he vanished, but unofficially the search for Gienn
25:57
Speaker 1: continues to this day. However, they still have no found
26:00
Speaker 1: his body and basically no real progress has been made.
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